Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1928?

521 of the people we track were surely alive in 1928. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1928: Che Guevara, Noam Chomsky, Andy Warhol, Stanley Kubrick, Maya Angelou, Hosni Mubarak, Ariel Sharon and James Watson.

Died in 1928: Thomas Hardy, Hendrik Lorentz and Wilhelm Wien.

  1. Adolf Hitler39
  2. Albert Einstein49
  3. Ronald Reagan17
  4. Nelson Mandela10
  5. Mahatma Gandhi59
  6. Joseph Stalin50
  7. Pablo Picasso47
  8. Winston Churchill54
  9. Charlie Chaplin39
  10. Elizabeth II2
  11. Thomas Edison81
  12. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk47–49
  13. Sigmund Freud72
  14. John F. Kennedy11
  15. Marie Curie61
  16. Salvador Dalí24
  17. Rabindranath Tagore67
  18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt46
  19. Marilyn Monroe2
  20. Mao Zedong35
  21. Che Guevaraborn
  22. Charles de Gaulle38
  23. Nikola Tesla72
  24. Walt Disney27
  25. George Orwell25
  26. Ernest Hemingway29
  27. Margaret Thatcher3
  28. James Joyce46
  29. John Paul II8
  30. Gabriel García Márquez1
  31. Fidel Castro2
  32. J. R. R. Tolkien36
  33. Albert Camus15
  34. Henry Ford65
  35. Marlene Dietrich27
  36. Benito Mussolini45
  37. Jean-Paul Sartre23
  38. Le Corbusier41
  39. Frida Kahlo21
  40. Mother Teresa18
  41. Jimmy Carter4
  42. Benedict XVI1
  43. Harry S. Truman44
  44. Agatha Christie38
  45. George H. W. Bush4
  46. Jorge Luis Borges29
  47. Jawaharlal Nehru39
  48. Dwight D. Eisenhower38
  49. Alan Turing16
  50. Richard Nixon15
  51. Rudyard Kipling63
  52. Alfred Hitchcock29
  53. Noam Chomskyborn
  54. Simone de Beauvoir20
  55. George Bernard Shaw72
  56. John Maynard Keynes45
  57. Niels Bohr43
  58. Bertrand Russell56
  59. Leon Trotsky49
  60. Max Planck70
  61. Arthur Conan Doyle69
  62. Maxim Gorky60
  63. Henri Matisse59
  64. Frank Lloyd Wright61
  65. Andy Warholborn
  66. Louis Armstrong27
  67. Virginia Woolf46
  68. Akira Kurosawa18
  69. Lyndon B. Johnson20
  70. Gerald Ford15
  71. Ernest Rutherford57
  72. Ludwig Wittgenstein39
  73. Indira Gandhi11
  74. Huang Xianfan29
  75. Enrico Fermi27
  76. Naguib Mahfouz17
  77. Nikita Khrushchev34
  78. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry28
  79. H. G. Wells62
  80. Helen Keller48
  81. Pablo Neruda24
  82. Igor Stravinsky46
  83. David Hilbert66
  84. Thomas Mann53
  85. Erwin Schrödinger41
  86. Herbert Hoover54
  87. Hermann Hesse51
  88. Isaac Asimov8–9
  89. Ingmar Bergman10
  90. Federico Fellini8
  91. Mahathir Mohamad3
  92. Calvin Coolidge56
  93. Kim Il-sung16
  94. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn10
  95. T. S. Eliot40
  96. Stanley Kubrickborn
  97. Kahlil Gibran45
  98. Kwame Nkrumah19
  99. Marlon Brando4
  100. Hirohito27
  101. Richard Feynman10
  102. Selma Lagerlöf70
  103. Bertolt Brecht30
  104. William Butler Yeats63
  105. Ho Chi Minh38
  106. Judy Garland6
  107. Carl Jung53
  108. Vladimir Nabokov29
  109. Eleanor Roosevelt44
  110. B. R. Ambedkar37
  111. Martin Heidegger39
  112. John Steinbeck26
  113. William Howard Taft71
  114. Konrad Adenauer52
  115. William Faulkner31
  116. Sergei Eisenstein30
  117. Édith Piaf13
  118. Maya Angelouborn
  119. André Gide59
  120. Aldous Huxley34

The 120 best known of 521 are listed.